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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Ho to remove leading zeros from a csv file which is sent from a UNIX script Post 302989551 by kshji on Saturday 14th of January 2017 10:09:01 AM
Old 01-14-2017
Shortly:
You have csv file which is something like:
Code:
00001,0012
...

And when you open in Excel by clicking your email attachment, the looks like:
Code:
1,12
...

It's Excel import default. I have not found any setup in Excel where you can change those defaults. So: M$ knows better what you need as you Smilie. If it looks number then it's number and you don't need leading 0's. If excel import string which include only numbers then it can't be string ...

If you like to keep those leading 0's in numbered string then you need import file to Excel:
* save your Attachment to some.csv
* Import a text file by opening it in Excel
* use wizard
* setup delimiter, setup those columns to text type, not default
And you have leading 0's. So they I have planned in Seattle. It have to be difficult to say that this is string, not number.


You can use example ssconvert to convert csv to xls including some defaults ..., but if you change those fields to excel string formattadding ' before values '00001,'00012 then ssconvert ex2.csv ex2.xls 2>/dev/null fields look nice including 0's and send it.

ssconvert can be installed to the Ubuntu and Debian:
Code:
apt-get install gnumeric

The best solution:
Code:
easy install csv2xlsx  xlsx2csv
csv2xlsx --delimiter "," 'utf-8' SheetName < ex1.csv > ex1.xlsx


Last edited by rbatte1; 01-16-2017 at 07:04 AM.. Reason: Changed some CODE tags to ICODE tags to ease the reading flow
 

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xlhtml(1)						      General Commands Manual							 xlhtml(1)

NAME
xlhtml - A program for converting Microsoft Excel Files .xls SYNOPSIS
xlhtml [-a] [-asc] [-csv] [-xml] [-bcNNNNNN] [-bi/path] [-c] [-dp] [-v] [-fw] [-m] [-nc] [-nh] [-tcNNNNNN] [-te] [-xc:N-N] [-xp:N] [-xr:N- N] FILE DESCRIPTION
This manual page explains the xlhtml program. The program xlhtml is used to convert Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet files into either html or tab delimitted ASCII. The program can be interfaced with helper scripts for viewing email attachments. Most use of this program is through the helper scripts and one would probably rarely resort to using the commandline interface. OPTIONS
-a aggressively optimize html by removing </TR> </TD> or VALIGN="bottom". Some older browsers may not display properly in this mode. -asc Ascii out of -dp and extraction data (-xc, -xp, -xr) -csv Output in Comma Separated Values of -dp and extraction data (-xc, -xp, -xr) -xml Output in XML of -dp and extraction data (-xc, -xp, -xr) -bc Override the background color. e.g. -bc808080 for gray -bi Use background image. e.g. -bi/home/httpd/icon/tar.gif -c Centers the tables horizontally -dp Dump page count and max columns and rows per page -v Prints program version -fw suppress formula warnings about accuracy -m No encoding for multibyte -nc tells it not to colorize the output. -nh Suppress header and body tags in html output -tc Override the text color. e.g. -tcFF0000 for red -te Trims empty rows & columns at the edges of a worksheet -xc Columns (separated by a dash) for extraction (zero based) -xp Page for extraction (zero based), one page only -xr Rows (separated by a dash) to be extracted (zero based) An example of the extraction command line is: xlhtml -fw -asc -xp:0 -xr:2-6 -xc:0-1 Test.xls The extraction output is: Formatted output of cells by column left to right, columns separated by a tab, end of row is: 0x0A, end of file: AUTHOR
Steve Grubb, Charles N Wyble xlhtml May 15, 2002 xlhtml(1)
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